On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 10:34:38PM +0200, Johannes Huettemeister
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>
> Hi,
> I got the same prob. All mail checkers seem to work with the spool
> file, so they only check if the file is == 0. But you need a proggie
> that checks if the size of the mailbox or mailfolder has changed.
Er, no. You want to check if the mtime of the file is greater than the
atime. This is also how most mail-checkers like biff work. I don't
know of any mail checker that indicates that new mail has arrived
only if the mailbox was empty beforehand.
To the original poster: If you're using procmail to sort your incoming
mail, you may as well have procmail launch the command to play the
sound as well.
-Rich
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